Editing Giambattista Vico (section)

==Biography==
[[File:Casa_Vico.jpg|left|220x220px|"In this little room Giambattista Vico was born on June 23 1668. Here he resided until he was seventeen years old, and in the subdued little workshop of his bookseller father he used to spend the nights in his study. Youthful eve of his sublime work. The city of Naples poses." Tombstone in the house where he was born in Via San Biagio dei Librai.|alt=|thumb]]
Born to a bookseller in [[Naples]], Italy, Giovan Battista Vico attended several schools, but ill health and dissatisfaction with the [[scholasticism]] of the [[Jesuit]]s led to his being educated at home by tutors. Evidence from his autobiographical work indicates that Vico likely was an [[autodidact]] educated under paternal influence, during a three-year absence from school, consequence of an accidental fall when the boy was seven years old.<ref name="SEP">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Costelloe|first=Timothy|title=Giambattista Vico|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|date=Fall 2022|access-date=16 June 2024}}</ref> Giovan Battista's formal education was at the [[University of Naples Federico II|University of Naples]] from which he graduated in 1694, as Doctor of Civil and Canon Law.<ref name="SEP" />

In 1686, after surviving a bout of [[typhus]], he accepted a job as a tutor, in Vatolla, south of [[Salerno]], which became a nine-year professional engagement that lasted till 1695.<ref name="SEP"/> Four years later, in 1699, Vico married Teresa Caterina Destito, a childhood friend, and accepted a chair in [[rhetoric]] at the University of Naples, which he held until ill-health retirement, in 1741.<ref name="SEP"/> Throughout his academic career, Vico would aspire to, but never attain, the more respectable chair of [[jurisprudence]]; however, in 1734, he was appointed [[historiographer royal]], by [[Charles III of Spain|Charles III]], King of Naples, at a salary greater than he had earned as a university professor.